What's freedom for you?
2006-12-25 10:05:35 · 14 answers · asked by forget me not 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
i feel free.
2006-12-25 10:07:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is probably less freedom than at any time since the second world war.
Extensive legislation provides for control and licencing of virtually all business activity in order to eliminate competition and move turnover to high priced, VAT registered companies that provide more income for Gordon.
Political freedom and so called free speech are restricted a narrow band of social democratic views and voicing opinions beyond this limit is subject to a raft of legislation and law suits by special interest groups. David Irving has recently served a term in an Austrian prison for challenging the official version of history.
Add to the the multitude of CCTV cameras and image recognition software that appears to have little effect on crimes against the individual and more to do with monitoring Joe Public and we have Orwell's 1984; has nobody noticed?
2006-12-25 10:23:32 · answer #2 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom for me is being able to think and believe in what ever i want. There will always be some cases where someone is preventing us from doing something, but overall us americans do a pretty good job at it :)
2006-12-25 10:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by blank 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Freedom, is a very complicated phenomenon, it is the right to live where you want, speak what you want, go where you want, and do what you want, providing it is legal and doesn't infringe upon someone Else's freedom!! If you travel to countries as i have, that have no freedom, then what we have is self explanatory!!
2006-12-25 10:25:05 · answer #4 · answered by FEVER 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are moving into Orwell's 1984 - we are just a bit late doing it.
Certainly if ID cards with a readable chip on them go ahead we shall be tracked wherever we go.
FREE? That's a joke nowadays we are being ever more subject to surveillance and control.
We are living in a Dictatorship not a Democracy.
RoyS
2006-12-26 18:24:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free to walk the streets without anyone asking me for an ID card
2006-12-25 13:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by Jomtien C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What do I mean when I say that we first sought liberty? I sometimes wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there no constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will. It is not the liberty to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men know no check upon their liberty soon becomes a society in which liberty is the possession of only a savage few, as we have learned to our sorrow. And so what is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it, I can only tell you of my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women. ..."
2006-12-25 10:33:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I feel that we are free and freedom to me is America.
2006-12-25 10:17:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
freedom for me is having peace of mind - being at one with nature.
i was free for the most part of my youth!
some people have this all through their lives and they are lucky, but the majority of us, including me, are chained to sorrow, despair and meaninglessness
2006-12-25 10:15:32 · answer #9 · answered by hillman_avenger2006 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no ones really free, we heed the rules of society, we kill we goto jail, we work and pay taxes like the gov want us too, you want to get married u follow rules of ur religon and then follow rules of gov to make accepted. freedom is to do what ever u like with no one telling u its wrong, were just chess pieces on a board for gov to order us around
2006-12-25 10:10:59 · answer #10 · answered by a m 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, but some people can not do that.
2006-12-25 10:11:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋